One cottage was destroyed and three other structures damaged by explosions and fire Thursday night at Devils Lake, but no injuries were reported.

The explosions were near Glenwood Court on the northeast side of Devils Lake, between Clearwater Beach and Round Lake Highway, and were initially attributed to a gas leak. A total of 55 firefighters and 19 trucks responded to the 8:34 p.m. blast, according to a preliminary report by Addison Fire Chief Tim Shaw.

Addison High School senior Dakota Keenoy had just arrived home at about 8:30 p.m. when, less than a block away, a series of small explosions rocked the neighborhood.

“It sounded like fireworks at first,” Keenoy said. “I called 911 and me and my neighbor’s girlfriend Julie ran to the house next to the burning one.”

The pair started looking for potentially trapped people to pull to safety.

“I jumped up on a wall and peeked my head in the window,” Keenoy said. “There was one light on but no one was inside. So we ran around the house and flames were pouring out of the cabin that was originally burning.”

After seeing no one through the other side of the house, Keenoy and his neighbor moved back to a nearby tree line.

The house was fully in flames and had collapsed when firefighters arrived on the scene six minutes after the first report, Shaw reported. A second house had 50 percent damage along with a car that burned in a detached garage. A fourth structure suffered heat damage.

There were at least three explosions, Shaw reported. He added that firefighters worked hard to keep the fire from spreading to other structures.